changeset 60:fe68825fee28

added new references; wrote introductions about sendmail and qmail
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:07:28 +0200 (2008-10-18)
parents f74b56be6275
children 1b57ddb2736f
files thesis/bib/websites.bib thesis/tex/1-Candidates.tex
diffstat 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/thesis/bib/websites.bib	Sat Oct 18 10:59:06 2008 +0200
+++ b/thesis/bib/websites.bib	Sat Oct 18 12:07:28 2008 +0200
@@ -4,12 +4,42 @@
 	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mail_transfer_agent&oldid=238542929} (2008-10-15)}",
 }
 
+@misc{sendmail:homepage,
+	author = "The Sendmail Consortium",
+	title = "\emph{Homepage of sendmail}",
+	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://www.sendmail.org} (2008-10-18)}",
+}
+
+@misc{qmail:homepage1,
+	author = "Daniel J. Bernstein",
+	title = "\emph{Homepage of qmail}",
+	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html} (2008-10-18)}",
+}
+
+@misc{qmail:homepage2,
+	author = "Russell Nelson",
+	title = "\emph{Homepage of qmail}",
+	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://www.qmail.org} (2008-10-18)}",
+}
+
+@misc{lifewithqmail,
+	author = "Dave Sill",
+	title = "\emph{Life with qmail}",
+	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://lifewithqmail.org} (2008-10-18)}",
+}
+
 @misc{wikipedia:sendmail,
 	author = "Wikipedia",
 	title = "\emph{Sendmail}",
 	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sendmail&oldid=244710433} (2008-10-15)}",
 }
 
+@misc{wikipedia:qmail,
+	author = "Wikipedia",
+	title = "\emph{qmail}",
+	howpublished = "On the Internet: {\small\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qmail&oldid=241013610} (2008-10-18)}",
+}
+
 @misc{jdebp,
 	author = "Jonathan de Boyne Pollard",
 	title = "\emph{Unix Mail Transport Systems reviewed by JdeBP}",
--- a/thesis/tex/1-Candidates.tex	Sat Oct 18 10:59:06 2008 +0200
+++ b/thesis/tex/1-Candidates.tex	Sat Oct 18 12:07:28 2008 +0200
@@ -58,14 +58,35 @@
 Here follows a small introduction to each of the five.
 
 \subsection{\sendmail}
-%TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...
-%TODO: references to various descriptions
-%\citeweb{homepage:sendmail},
-\citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail}, \citeweb{jdebp}
+\sendmail\ is the most popular \mta.
+Since it was one of the first \MTA{}s and was shipped by many vendors of \unix\ systems.
+
+The program was written by Eric Allman as the successor of his program \name{delivermail}.
+\sendmail\ was first released with \NAME{BSD} 4.1c in 1983.
+Allman was not the only one working on the program.
+Other people developed own versions of it and a variety of flavors came up, especially in the late eighties when Allman was inactive.
+
+\sendmail\ is focused on transfering mails between different protocols and networks, this lead to a very flexible (though complex) configuration.
+
+The latest version is 8.14.3 from May 2008.
+Further development will go into the project \name{MeTA1} which succeeds \sendmail.
+
+More information can be found on the \sendmail\ homepage \citeweb{sendmail:homepage} and on \citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail} and \citeweb{jdebp}.
+%FIXME: license
+
 
 \subsection{\name{qmail}}
-%TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...
-%TODO: references to various descriptions
+\name{qmail} is seen by its community as ``a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete''.
+It was written by Daniel~J.\ Bernstein starting in 1995.
+His primary goal was to create a secure \MTA\ to replace the popular, but vulnerable, \sendmail.
+
+\name{qmail} first introduced may innovative concepts in \mta\ design and is generally seen as the first security-aware \MTA\ developed.
+
+Since November 2007, \name{qmail} is released in the \name{public domain} which makes it \freesw.
+The latest release is 1.03 from July 1998.
+
+The programs homepages are \citeweb{qmail:homepage1} and \citeweb{qmail:homepage2}. Further information about \name{qmail} is available on \citeweb{lifewithqmail}, \citeweb{wikipedia:qmail} and \citeweb{jdebp}.
+
 
 \subsection{\name{postfix}}
 %TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...